R E L E A S E I N F O R I P I N F O
Artist : VA Ripdate : Jun-2010
Album : 10 Years CLR - Mixed By Chris Liebing Source : CDDA
Label : CLR (Create Learn Realize) Type : Compilation
Catnr : CLRCD08 Quality : VBR
Year : 2010 Tracks : 01
Genre : Techno Size : 91,4 MB
T R A C K L I S T D U R A T I O N
01 Chris Liebing vs Green Velvet - Kinda High / Auf
Und Ab Und Kinda High (Dustin Zahn Mix) (Intro) 02:19
02 Chris Liebing - Ataraxia 08:35
03 Adam Beyer - Antistius 06:29
04 Brian Sanhaji - Higgs 05:45
05 Function vs Jerome Sydenham - Two Ninety One 02:03
06 Function vs Jerome Sydenham - Two Ninety One
(Chris Liebing Edit) 06:02
07 Monoloc - Pumpkin 07:49
08 Pfirter - Mi Estudio 06:23
09 Speedy J - Armstrong 04:00
10 Tommy Tour Seven - Sor 05:30
11 Alex Bau - Arctica 06:03
12 Chris Liebing vs Green Velvet - Kinda High / Auf
Und Ab Und Kinda High (Dustin Zahn Mix) (Outro) 03:31
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64:35 min
The birthday celebrations for Chris Liebing's CLR label have gone off like an
Icelandic volcano over the last few months, pouring their disruptive discharge
over clubs in America and across Europe, and this album accompanies such
shenanigans with 11 completely new tracks by grizzled veterans such as Adam
Beyer and Speedy J alongside current Liebing nurturees like Tommy Four Seven and
Pfirter. Liebing's background spins a yarn of radio shows, numerous imprints and
of course productions, but most of all a nocturnal heritage of residencies and
hosting parties, which is very clear in this hour of mayhem which transports the
listener, Tron-style, through their speaker cones into a cavernous world of raw
brick walls, smoke machines and scanners, populated by sweaty drones whose lord
is the Almighty Kick.
This might seem a bit of an overblown description for the first few minutes of
the album, but that's because it takes a little while to get going. Sure, it's
necessary to hold back. (And hold back, and hold back...) There's a hope, but
not a certainty, that holding back is just what he's up to, while the opening
build that leads into the blend of "Kinda High"/"Auf und Ab" (with the former's
too-familiar vocal) catches a locked groove and tries to decide which way to
turn.
Ever listened to the first minutes of a set that you were really looking forward
to, got bored and took a wander, and then stopped in an hour later and the
legions of hell were in the process of being commanded forth? Well, just as
"Higgs"s' rubber band tension is stretched to its breaking point, you're running
back to your mates with a Very Serious Look on your face spluttering about how
they Have To Come Right Now. From there, it goes deeper and more syncopated,
full of muscle-bound tech and railroad momentum. "Two Ninety One"'s warning
chimes calm and the mix drops out before the re-introduction of a lonely kick,
giving you a short breath above water and scaring you with the anticipation at
the same time.
The next few minutes are an exercise in pressure-loading, after which Pfirter's
"Mi Estudio" breaks through with unprecedented quantities of bass hypnotism and
pure urgency in the form of a scalp-shredding lead line. By the time "Sor"
drops, you're deep under, leaning on the barriers at the front next to some dude
with his eyes closed who's circling his arm around in a kind of Zen-like trance.
It's raw industrialism of the kind that we had been largely deprived of until
Berghain and Ostgut Ton came along. Dissipating into scatty weirdness near the
end, the house lights flash on terrifyingly, then go off again, before the
bookending "Kinda High" vocal (more relevant and less hackneyed this time) burns
it out and suddenly, you're back in stark reality, wondering where the bloody
hell you've been for the past half-hour.
Anyone can put together a pounding mix, but not many people can do it with the
kind of measure that Liebing does here. This album isn't 60 minutes of Chris
Liebing at a Secret Warehouse Location, it's a direct translation of the whole
depraved experience to your living room, whose few shortcomings include the
potential to make you blow your entire overdraft on tickets to Awakenings for
the next five years.
NOTE: Play on repeat and you'll have an endless loop running, since the mix
starts and ends with the same track. :-)
Born on the 19th of August, 2001.